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The possession of jewels by royalty has always signified status and power. In accordance with sumptuary laws only the high-born could wear jewels. Famous jewels began to be associated with certain dynasties. During the sixteenth century, for the first time, princes began to make a formal association between certain specific jewels and their own dynasty, declaring them to be inalienable heirlooms.
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Nash, M.L. (2017). The Jewels of the Kingdom. In: Royal Wills in Britain from 1509 to 2008. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60145-2_5
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